Elementary school
authors wrote stories and provided the illustrations for a book
about their second-grade mascot travelling the world.

Second graders write
“The Adventures of Cannoneer Bear”

March 8, 2017

Rachel Manning’s second-grade class
recently published a book titled, “The Adventures of Cannoneer
Bear.” The
story recounts the adventures of the grade 2 mascot who travels the
world, visiting the countries of the students’ ancestors
and families.

For her story, second-grade author, Ella
LaBossiere wrote about how Cannoneer Bear ventured to the most-often
visited country in the world: France. Ella wrote that Cannoneer Bear
stopped at the Café Royal and dined on barley and corn. While there,
the bear also learned a few French words.

Classmate Anna Orlioglu wrote about
Cannoneer Bear’s adventures in Moldova, an Eastern European country
between Romania and Ukraine, where her mom was born. In Moldova, the
bear snacked on grapes, and learned to say “hello” in Russian.
According to Anna, who drew the artwork for the bookcover, Cannoneer Bear loved his Moldovan adventure!

Ella and Anna picked their friend
Garrett’s story as another favorite because in his tale, Cannoneer
Bear visited a farm and ate six plates of noodles!

In February,
students invited their families to an author’s
reception to celebrate
the book publishing.The second-graders
gathered in the elementary school cafeteria to
share the stories with their parents, grandparents and other special
guests. Mrs. Manning had the book printed in hard cover and made
paperback copies available for students and families
to take home.

The budding authors enjoyed writing
their stories so much that Ella and Anna said they would like to
write another book about what Cannoneer Bear does over the summer
vacation.

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